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...pretty harmless. A more realistic fear, at least for many who actually work in the field, is that unfounded panic could hold back important research. That's not good enough for Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group, a Canada-based social-advocacy organization that wants a global moratorium on nanotech research until health, safety and environmental tests are carried out. It was ETC Group's research into the dangers of nanotech that stirred Prince Charles to intervene. "If there have been industry studies indicating that these materials are safe, then we'd like to see them," she says...
...same time, the University imposed a moratorium on travel to Taiwan, citing the country’s increase in the number of SARS cases from 37 to 78 in the past week...
...Ryan has also sparked controversy by commuting the sentences of 164 death row inmates, leaving them in jail but protecting them from execution. When he commuted the sentences, Ryan had already made headlines by declaring a moratorium on the death penalty after 13 residents of Illinois’s death row were proven to be innocent...
Concerns about the contagiousness of the disease also motivated the decision to impose the moratorium on University-sponsored travel, Rosenthal said...
...moratorium comes as students at the College are planning trips for this summer and next year to study and perform thesis research in China and other affected countries...